Saturday, April 28, 2012

Lawrence Martin asks the question and then lays out years of Harperist malfeasance.

Real democracies, as we learned in high school, are supposed to be open
and tolerant of dissent and have checks and balances and run fair
elections. Those kinds of things.

But anyone who scrolls through recent media, conservative media
included, might be forgiven for concluding that we have something more
closely resembling the opposite. Something more akin to billy-club
governance. Think of the ironclad controls, the scorning of
accountability, the censorship, the smearing of opponents, the power
unto one. The abuses are not just opposition talk. They’re writ large in
Auditor-Generals’ reports, in internal documents and journalists’
investigations. Some of the abuses have happened in other governments
but have they ever happened on the scale we’ve seen from this crowd?